train oil
whale oil

We all know how they live upon whales, and have rare old vintages of prime old train oil.

However, Österholm has suggested that it may in fact represent the processing of seal train oil.

The company name was an abbreviation of the founding companies' names, Trains Oil and Rex Line.

Whale oil was sometimes known as train oil, which comes from the Dutch word traan ("tear" or "drop").

The Azerbaijan State Oil Academy was established in 1920 to train oil specialists.

Mr. Chadband is a large yellow man with a fat smile and a general appearance of having a good deal of train oil in his system.

Hjuvik was previously a fishing community with herring salting houses and train oil distillation houses.

But Mendelssohn, finding that the work had too much counterpoint and too little "train oil, gulls and salted cod," revised it in 1832.

Murchison is president of Murchison Drilling Schools, a company founded by his father, that trains oil field drilling rig operators.

Herring spawn, dried fish, clams, oysters, sea mammal blubber and "train oil" (whale oil) were staples of the diet (the oil was even added to strawberries).

Except iron, Sweden exported copper, silver, hide, fur, train oil, salmon, and butter, while importing salt, broadcloth, beer, wine, and luxury items such as spice, glass, and ceramics.

Certainly it cannot be olive oil, nor macassar oil, nor castor oil, nor bear's oil, nor train oil, nor cod-liver oil.

"For secondary example:- In polar climates, the human frame, to maintain its animal heat, requires, for combustion in the capillary system, an abundant supply of highly azotized food, such as train oil.

The train oils its way out from between the platforms, and lights on the station become one with lights on bridges, and in buildings, transfigured now, from shapeless concrete lumps into illuminated palaces.

The development of modern whaling techniques was spurred in the 19th century by the increase in demand for whale oil, sometimes known as "train oil" and in the 20th century by a demand for margarine and later meat.

In one more family and a fraction out of the same number, efforts are being made to reduce the children to a state of nature; and to inculcate, at a tender age, the love of raw flesh, train oil, new rum, and the acquisition of scalps.

John R. Jewitt, an Englishman who wrote a memoir about his years as a captive of the Nootka people on the Pacific Northwest Coast in 1802-1805, describes how what he calls train oil was used as a condiment with every dish, even strawberries.